Browsing All Posts published on »November, 2011«

I have a confession to make. I have read the Twilight series. That’s not the confession; I’ve heard enough people scathingly ridiculing the books in hip coffee shops on Brunswick Street to know that it’s okay to have read the first chapter or so. No, my confession is that I read the Twilight series, and […]

All Aussies claim to live up to the land-loving, tanned, hardened image the world holds of us, but are we really? Is it land-loving to continually rebuff the idea of eating kangaroo meat? We’ve all seen it, lying on the supermarket shelves. It looks like any other meat that we would buy for a Tuesday […]

Ever wondered what melding pornography and romantic-comedies would look like? No need to wonder anymore, readers, such a film exists for your viewing pleasure. I’ve seen bad movies before, in fact, I’ve seen so many I’m compiling a list. Apparently I never knew what a “bad movie” was until I saw My First Wedding. I […]

I really hated Keira Knightley until very recently. Maybe it was that she was so skinny and she made it look effortless, or maybe it was that she got to kiss my tweenage crush, Orlando Bloom. But mostly it’s because she was, as my good friends Dr Mark Kermode and Simon Mayo like to say […]

This past summer I became very attached to Buffy the Vampire Slayer. For weeks we couldn’t get enough of Buffy’s ass-kicking punchlines, the hilarious cut-away moments, and Spike singing in a graveyard. It was a beautiful time. While we were deep in Buffy-mania [fellow editor] Will Kay, who was not a fan, could often be found—headphones […]

Coldplay have always held a noble aim in their music. Like The Beatles, Michael Jackson, and U2, they strive to deliver music to the masses, while at the same time producing work of artistic merit. So while they straddle this divide, they cast envious glances with one eye at Justin Bieber and Arcade Fire the […]